The Republic possesses one Lazaretto, established in the Isle of Flores, at a distance of 17 miles southeast from Montevideo.
It is quite comfortable and provided with everything that may be required for disinfecting and fumigating luggage and correspondence.
There is a telegraph and telephone line established between Montevideo and the Lazaretto.
It has not yet been possible to calculate exactly and completely the interior commerce of the Republic, between Montevideo and all the other Departments. Statistics only give the figures representing the cattle and rural products imported to Montevideo by the Departments and that come by railway for local consumption and export.
This commerce gave, during the last five years, a total of 143,446 carts, that is to say a yearly middle term of 28,689.
There arrive daily to the Montevideo markets, by railroad and by the rivers, great quantities of skins, (oxen, horses, sheep) wool, horns, bones, tallow, ostrich feathers and other products of cattle industry, and among rural products great quantities of corn, wheat, flour, canary-seed, barley, mustard-seed, potatoes, garlick, French beans, onions, pumpkins, eggs, butter, fowl, cheeses, paving and lime stone, spirits and many other goods it would be too long to mention here.
There is an important increase every year in the quantity of cattle destined to local consumption, to the Montevideo saladeros and export.
During the year 1891, 20,328 licenses were paid for by trade-houses, industries, professions and work-houses. The nationality of those who asked for their trade patent was:
Natives 4,134 Argentines 370 Brazilians 166 Italians 7,995 Spaniards 5,336 French 1,324 English 130 Germans 173 Swiss 186 Portuguese 116 Belgians 7 Swedish 7 Danes 5 Norwegians 6 Dutch 1 Austrians 52 North-Americans 28 Russians 6 Peruvians 1 Chilians 12 Paraguayan 11 Other Nations 262
Among the most important industries, must be mentioned: the Liebig Extract of Meat Company, the _saladeros_ or killing grounds, the spirits, wine and beer manufactures, flour mills, the starch and vermicelli manufactures, the soap, suet and oil manufactures, the gas, electric light and water companies, the match, brick, shoe and wooden shoe manufactures, the tan-yards, saw-mills, etc., etc.